Subj : Re: What you can do with a movie trailer
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 01:32:34

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

RR wrote:

> Nick wrote:
> 
>>>>>>> D'oh!  I posted this a few days ago.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Slacker...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That's where he got the idea.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In all fairness to Nick, it's *still* really, really amusing.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I am a confessed chicken when it comes to scary movies. 
>>>> However, I didn't find this one to be all that scary and I was
>>>> kind of hoping to get the Mrs to watch The Shining after seeing
>>>> the trailer. It doesn't seem to be working. 
>>> 
>>> I don't know if I'd say it's the "scariest" horror film ever,
>>> but it is deeply disturbing and wonderfullu executed.
>>> 
>>> If I had to pick one horror flick that scares the bejeezus out
>>> of me more than any other, it would be "Rosemary's Baby".
>>> Anytime I watch it, I start jumping around and talking to the
>>> movie and freaking out.
>>> 
>>> I love that film. Like a real close film.
>> 
>> 
>> Ok, possessed movies are number one on my scary meter, followed
>> closely by monster movies.  I figure I can shoot psychopaths
>> since they don't have supernatural/superhuman powers, except for
>> John. 
> 
> Have you seen RB? It involves none of the above. I think it's
> worse, which is odd, because it involves theologies to which I
> don't subscribe. 
> 
> Nevertheless, there's something about the way Polanski shot it,
> the conviction of the actors and the script, and to an external
> degree, the fact that it was the film Polanski made shortly before
> the Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson family. There are eerie
> similarities involving hive mentality and the ability for people
> to control other's minds. 
> 
> Freaky shit, man.


No, I haven't seen it.  
And I intend to keep it that way.

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